Oracle Linux 5 : kernel (ELSA-2013-0847)

high Nessus Plugin ID 68826

Synopsis

The remote Oracle Linux host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Oracle Linux 5 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2013-0847 advisory.

- [xen] AMD IOMMU: spot missing IO-APIC entries in IVRS table (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}
- [xen] AMD, IOMMU: Make per-device interrupt remap table default (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}
- [xen] AMD, IOMMU: Disable IOMMU if SATA Combined mode is on (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}
- [xen] AMD, IOMMU: On creating entry clean up in remapping tables (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}
- [xen] ACPI: acpi_table_parse() should return handler's err code (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}
- [xen] introduce xzalloc() & Co (Igor Mammedov) [910912 910913] {CVE-2013-0153}

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2013-0847.html

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 68826

File Name: oraclelinux_ELSA-2013-0847.nasl

Version: 1.16

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 7/12/2013

Updated: 11/1/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.7

Temporal Score: 3.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-0153

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5xen, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5xen, cpe:/o:oracle:linux:5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-xen-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5pae, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug-devel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:ocfs2-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-debug, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel-headers, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:kernel, p-cpe:/a:oracle:linux:oracleasm-2.6.18-348.6.1.el5pae

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/OracleLinux

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/22/2013

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-0153

BID: 57745

RHSA: 2013:0847